Haven't done a driving trip in several years because that SLP-Monterrey slog is so incredibly depressing ..... you have to wonder what might have become of you had you been born in one of them sorry, poorer than dirt, no rain, no future, no NUTHIN 'desolate townlets.

Analysts said Greece's biggest immediate hurdle, a 10-year, 8.5 billion euro bond coming due in May, remained, and the country of 11 million still faced a long-term slog to win back investor confidence and return to economic health.

Sherwen: Very wet indeed - and there are 3 climbs the Giant Tour takes in - running 5km, 10km with pitches up to 14\%, and the final 12km slog, that is more gradual - 6\%-8\%, but after a hard day's racing the riders will be wondering what hit them …

Working within the system is a long, hard slog which is all-but-guaranteed to lead you to disappointments and compromises; but working outside the establishment rarely gets your goals even partly achieved, and could in fact work against your advantage to assure election for someone diametrically opposed to your views (instead of slightly-supportive of your views).

When big bro 43's first Secretary of Defense started to diminish the expectations regarding how the military acted in GWOT he wrote an infamous "slog" memo in which he wondered if the US could kill as many terrorists as the very act of killing one terrorist emanated the creation of countless numbers of new jihadists.